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My Physician, Mind. 



Metaphysics in a Nutshell. 



A CONCISE TREATISE ON 



Mental and Spiritual Dynamics. 

Their Application as a Therapeutic Agent, in the Cure 
of all Diseases, whether in Acute or Chronic Form. 



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IN SCOPE, 

It covers the entire domain of Man's relations to God, the Neighbor, and to 
the Universe of Tilings. 



Mind is a universal prophylactic; it renders both body and soul impervi- 
ous to all moral or physical perturbations. 



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1886. 



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COPYRIGHT, 1886, BY J. B. CROCKER. 



PREFACE. 

^JtttUCH has been said and written of late 
on the subject of Metaphysical Pa- 
thology and Therapeutics. Of necessity, each 
author has mapped out his own cluster of 
conceptions, amplified his premises, and in- 
tensified his fundamental idea; and, in some 
instances, its power in healing has been dem- 
onstrated. 

No uniform Theory or Practice has, as yet, 
been established, save the proposition of a 
general denial of the existence of matter on 
the one side, and the affirmation that "All is 
Mind," on the other. Much of the thought- 
matter heretofore published has had its origin 
in the personal experience of the writer, rather, 
than in an adaptation to, and an outcome 
from, the fitness of things, made manifest in 
universal nature. 

The public mind is ready to welcome any 
new movement having for its end the allevia- 
tion of human suffering, and which would 



4 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

pave the way for the expression of higher 
and purer conditions of life. 

Health and disease are fundamental ques- 
tions, interwoven with the dearest interests 
of all mankind, in their individual, as well as, 
their collective capacity. 

The present writer is fully conscious that 
much good has already resulted from the 
agitation of thought in this direction. But a 
vast amount of missionary work remains to 
be done; for the fields are white unto har- 
vest, and the real — the genuine, unselfish 
workers — are few. 

It may seem merely analogous and pro- 
phetic to state, that the day is not far distant 
when a wave of divine harmony will reach 
this planet, and the rule of righteousness be 
applied to the affairs of every -day life. Then 
all-sided perfection in individual character will 
be attained. Sin and sickness will be things 
of the past, and all public institutions will be 
the highest expressions of Divine Love and 
Wisdom. "My Physician, Mind," is sent 
forth to aid its coming. 

Aid its dawning, tongue and pen; 

Aid it, hopes of honest men. 

Aid it, paper — aid it, type; 

Aid it, for the hour is ripe. 
And our earnest must not slacken into play ; 
Men of thought and men of action, clear the way. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics, 
basic principles. 
God, the Universe, Man. 
Soul and Spirit. 

Spirit and Mind. 

Mind and Body. 

Body and Environment. 

Ontological. 
Statement of Being. 

CHAPTER II. 
Mental and Spiritual Dynamics 

AS 

Relative Opposites and Mutual Dependents 

in 
Association. 

CHAPTER III. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics 

in their application to 

Sexology, Parentage and Population. 



CHAPTER IV. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics 

in reference to a 
Universal System of Education, 

in WHICH 

Mind and Body, 

Intellect, Intuition and Emotion 

are 

Eelative Opposites and Mutual Dependents. 

CHAPTER V. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics 

in reference to a 

Universal System of Scientific Cooperation, 

in WHICH 

Capital and Labor, 

Production and Consumption, 

are 

Relative Opposites and Mutual Dependents. 

CHAPTER VI. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics. 

Bridging Over Old Conditions Into the New. 

Pathological. 

CHAPTER VII. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics. 
Therapeutical — Ethical. 



CHAPTER I. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics, 
basic principles. 
God, the Universe, Man. 
Soul and Spirit. 

Spirit and Mind. 
Mind and Body. 

Body and Environment. 
These all exist as Relative Opposite* and Mutual Dependents. 
They are merely the antithetical repetitions of the higher in 
the lower, and vice versa, reciprocally. 

OSTTOLOGICAL. 

STATEMENT OF BEING. 

SEEING is both passive and active. Its 
passive side corresponds to the absolute 
and infinite. It is the boundless ocean of 
unconscious thought — the limitless sea with- 
out a shore. Its active side is the relative, 
the finite, which enters into, or rather, repre- 
sents, the infinite, being its expression. Being 
is the repository of all forces and their forma- 
tive processes. 

Being is self-extant — lies back of and 
beyond all prime elements and principles, 



8 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

ideas and their illustrations. It is an un- 
broken unit, unlimited by time, space, sense 
or soul. 

All forms and forces derive their existence. 
They are but the manifestations of that In- 
finite Fountain of principles, interior, anterior 
and posterior to all motion, life and sensation, 
throughout all domains of thought. 

Being, or God, the Absolute and All-em- 
bracing, as an Infinite Unit, remains eternally 
in statu quo, without beginning, end or change. 
All that was, is. To the whole nothing can 
be added — nothing taken from — since it 
takes all the parts to constitute the whole. 

God, the I Am, is more than Principle and 
Personation ; more than Unity and Variety ; 
more than the Universal and Particular; 
more than Life, Truth and Love, Substance 
and Intelligence ; for these exist in endless 
modifications, and the eternal wisdom which 
combines all is less than "God, blessed for- 
evermore." 

God cannot be comprehended, for the rea- 
son that that which is comprehended is less 
than the comprehendor. It would be com- 
pressing the whole within the limits of a part. 
A proper thought and understanding thereto 
is possible, but this knowledge can only be 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 9 

attained through the Soul's connection with 
God. 

The procedure or manifestation of force, 
vis, life, or the subtle, creative essence, does 
not emanate from one single power alone. 
The Infinite Father involves the Infinite 
Mother as its relative opposite and mutual 
dependent. The Brotherhood of the race 
has a diviner complement, a " better half," 
in the Sisterhood of the race. As it is writ- 
ten, (Gen. i, 26): "And God said, Let us 
make man in our image, after our likeness ; 
and let them have dominion over the fish of 
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and 
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and 
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon 
the earth." 

The Infinite and Finite, male and female, 
are the "us," the inseparable two, in one. 
Unity is complemented in the infinite variety, 
displayed in contrasted elements, uni-variety, 
two in one. The omnipresent and everlast- 
ing change has its relative opposite and mu- 
tual dependent in the inexpugnability of 
prime elements. In every change there is al- 
ways a persistent remainder. The Creator 
and the creature are but reflections of each 
other — two in one. 



10 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

There is no substance but that made mani- 
fest through form. All objective forms are 
but illustrations of interior forces, (Mental 
and Spiritual Dynamics,) thoughts and intel- 
lectual perceptions on the one side, and in- 
tuitional, emotional energies on the other 
side. The former represents the male ele- 
ment; the latter the female. These acting 
and reacting upon one another, bring Life 
and Immortality to light. 

In the beginning God created the heaven 
and the earth. "And God said, Let there 
be light, and there was light." Light was 
the result of the Word (thought, impulse). 

"In the beginning was the Word, and the 
Word was with God, and the Word was 
God. The same was in the beginning with 
God. All things were made by Him; and 
without Him was not anything made that 
was made." 

The word "beginning" has no value when 
exclusively applied to time, for the universal 
symbol of duration is an unbroken circle, 
without beginning or ending. 

Time is only the comparative degrees of 
motion over space. Day and night, spring- 
time and harvest, summer and winter, are 
merely results from the diurnal and annual 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 11 

revolutions of the earth. The common time 
piece is constructed upon the same principle, 
the different motions being indicated upon 
the circle of the dial. Beginning must have 
reference to the Word, thought or intention, 
the formative force from which the earth and 
its atmosphere resulted, and these could have 
had but a relative beginning, since they are 
reflections of God and the Word — two in 
one. 

The form and substance constituting the 
earth and heaven never had a beginning as 
prime elements. They are reflections of 
God's thought, but, through new combina- 
tions, are forevermore producing new ex- 
pressions; and these expressions are the 
outcomes of Mental and Spiritual Dynamics. 
And God said: "Let us make man in our 
image, after our likeness. ,, Man is the re- 
sult of a dual force, and his constitutional 
make-up is — 

Male and Female, 
Positive and Negative, 
Finite and Infinite, 
Absolute and Relative, 
Form and Substance. 
These are all expressed in infinite degrees 



12 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

of variation — no two expressions ever being 
the same. 

Man is the perfect image and exact likeness 
of God. The Soul of Man forms a complete 
circle — is a perfect entity. The life of the 
Soul is immortal, and this immortality has 
reference alike to past, present and future — 
is related to God in the ratio of the atom to 
the whole. The innermost of the circle or 
sphere of the soul represents the female 
principle; the outer, the male principle — 
two in one. The former is the more spirit- 
ual ; the latter more intellectual. 

The soul does not dwell within the body, 
any more than God dwells within the soul, or 
the painter within the picture. The soul is 
the absolute and infinite principle — God's 
perfect idea. 

The life of the soul is broken into two 
halves, or, rather, one- half is eclipsed or 
shaded, like evening chasing the morning, 
darkness the light. These two distinctive 
features of consciousness are relative op- 
posites and mutual dependents, comple- 
mentary to each other. The Absolute side 
is the fountain source of all aspiration, and 
forms the background of the picture of all 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 13 

spiritual expressions and human endeavors; 
it constitutes the better self, toward which 
man is forever reaching, and, through which, 
he discovers Deity, develops individual rea- 
son and intuition, and recognizes the beau- 
tiful law of interdependence and divine 
harmony. 

Spirit, in contradistinction to Soul, refers 
to that side forming the connection between 
the celestial and the terrestrial ; it is repre- 
sented in the organic structure as the neck 
which connects the head with the trunk. It 
is the dynamic force which forms all organs 
and repairs all injuries. The spiritual con- 
sciousness is broken by three elements, viz., 
by time, space, and the senses, and becomes 
subject in its visible expression to the action 
of the outer laws of the universe. 

The experiences entered upon by the soul, 
through the spirit, in connection with the 
body, are infinite in their variety; and, are 
carried forward uninterruptedly from one 
point of culmination to another; therefore, 
each experience makes its record upon the 
being of the soul, as the rings within the tree 
denote the years of its growth. 

The soul's descent, through the spirit into 
limitations, is symbolized in Genesis, third 



14 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

chapter. The "Eden" condition, or Para- 
dise, represents man previous to his coming 
in contact with the corporeal principle (mat- 
ter, if you please); for, his descent was a 
direct spirihial imptdsion, an aggregation of 
prepared atoms, and not through generation ; 
for, marriage, as yet, had not been instituted. 

Man, the human, was a spiritual creation, 
and did not come to the earth alone; but, 
like the atoms, the stars, the flowers, came 
in groups; consequently, an orderly and or- 
ganized condition of life is the natural 
state of man ; hence, the family, society, 
community, etc. The spiritual ties being 
stronger and more enduring than the ties of 
consanguinity, accounts for the discord exist- 
ing among blood relations; such are not of 
the same group, or of the same spiritual 
household. 

All forms in objective life result from the 
attrition and coalescence of relatively opposing 
forces, which are harmonious, or otherwise, 
in the exact ratio of parallelism entering into 
such association or marriage of relatively op- 
posing forces. This fact is basic and founda- 
tional. It forms the key of harmony in the 
constitution and construction of all things; 
it is exemplified in the atomic structure of 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 15 

worlds and systems of worlds ; and applies, 
with equal force, to man and all man-made 
institutions. 



CHAPTER II. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics 

AS 

Eelative Opposites and Mutual Dependents 
in Association. 

S%|%ENTAL and Spiritual Dynamics in- 
volve those forces which are ex- 
pressed in the domain of the senses; they 
are amenable to human power externally ap- 
plied, on the one side, and that vast, subtle, 
invisible force, not amenable to human power 
externally applied, on the other side. To- 
gether, they constitute all organs, being the 
organizer ; all functions, with their operating 
and repairing forces ; all the faculties and the 
inspiration that infills them. They exist as 
male and female — are relative opposites and 
mutual dependents ; and, through their attri- 
tion and coalescence, human life is sustained 
and the species perpetuated. 

Man is surrounded by silent forces, which 
play upon his senses in a vague and un- 
defined manner. He breathes them in the 
atmosphere; absorbs them through contact; 

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MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 17 

assimilates them in the processes of nutri- 
tion ; discovers them by thought, idea, and 
perception in form and substance; catches 
their vibrations and tones of harmony 
through the ear ; sees their beauties through 
the eye; knows and communes with them 
through the affection and wisdom faculties, 
the outermost laws of which, in a very 
limited sense, only, have been discovered 
and applied to ultimate use ; while the inner- 
most laws of which, have, as yet, not been 
dreamed of by any mind on earth. 

Remember, that for every ultimate phys- 
ical atom there is a correlative, spiritual 
force; for every ultimate physical result, 
there is a correlative spiritual cause; for 
every manifestation of matter defined by the 
intellect, there is a spiritual cause not defined 
by the intellect — not yet reached by science. 

Mind, alone, is positive. Spirit, alone, is 
elemental, indestructible, primal. That which 
is combined can be disintegrated ; that which 
is an aggregation of atoms can be changed 
and its form destroyed. 

But Soul is the one sole primate — never 

combines, is indestructible, changes not, 

passes not away; is ancient as God, coeval 

with His spirit, born of His breath, living in 

2 



18 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

His life ; does not have its birth on earth ; is 
not the result of physical organism; does 
not proceed from combinations of matter, 
favorable to the production of essences, 
called mind. 

Man, the epitome of material creation, is 
also the expression on earth of a spiritual 
creation. Where material science pauses, 
spiritual science begins with its wonderful 
wealth, its knowledge of all past and future 
things — a revelation which transcends the 
senses and brings to human consciousness 
the truth that there is no lost link in the 
chain of being. Thought never perishes, but 
abides forever; it builds the temples of the 
future, and paves the way for more exalted 
states of existence, of which we have, to- 
day, no more knowledge than has the ma- 
terial scientist of the primal atom of matter 
which, as yet, has not been found. 

Spiritual dynamics has given proof of its 
potency in the broad illustrations of universal 
worlds, and throughout the separate king- 
doms each may contain — in the pulling down 
of old forms, and their reconstruction into 
the more beautiful new. It has verified its 
wonder workings, in the domain of the 
human senses, in apparently suspending the 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 19 

forces of cohesion and attraction, by causing 
bodies of equal density to pass silently and 
rapidly through one another ; as in levitation, 
overcoming the law of gravitation ; Jesus 
walking upon the sea; persons floating 
through the air; ponderous bodies moving 
without any visible contact; also, as in ma- 
terialization, the instantaneous production of 
beautiful, fragrant flowers, luscious fruits, 
and the like; converting water into wine; 
feeding five thousand hungry people with 
five loaves and two small fishes, and gather- 
ing up twelve baskets that remained ; taking 
from fire its power to consume the human 
organism, while handling red hot coals ; pass- 
ing through the fiery furnace ; in raising the 
apparently dead ; in healing the sick ; taking 
up venomous reptiles ; in accordance with the 
Master's promise, "If ye drink any deadly 
thing, it shall not hurt you." It has been 
displayed in the Fine Arts, tracing beautiful 
fruits and flowers and familiar forms in the 
mundane and super-mundane spheres ; truth- 
fully transferring the grand old mountains 
and the gorgeous canons of Colorado upon 
canvas, through the organism of a blind- 
folded artist. It is the force, which in the 
domain of mind, floods human consciousness 



20 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

with sublime inspirations, making brilliant 
orators from untutored maidens, whose 
beauty and pathos have astonished the 
world; whose clear logic has confounded 
the skeptic with argument so complete that 
there remained no grounds for disputation; 
through it new ideas have been evolved, new 
thoughts of life, and what life portends ; un- 
folding the purposes of being — its laws, and 
their application in uplifting processes of 
human progress; it has rolled back the 
stone from the Sepulcher, proving continu- 
ous life beyond the grave, opening up the 
beauties of inter-communion between the 
two worlds ; it has brought to the home and 
hearth-stone of almost every family the intel- 
ligent presence of the long-mourned loved 
ones; it has broken down the barriers of 
superstitious fear; delivered from the thrall- 
dom of the senses, changing the grim mon- 
ster, Death, into the white-winged messenger 
of immortal life and celestial glory. 

This world presents the extremes of pov- 
erty and riches, beauty and deformity, virtue 
and vice. Human life is an endless combina- 
tion of these extremes, which the Intellect is 
endeavoring to explain, Religion to reconcile, 
and Philosophy to harmonize. 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 21 

These extremes are the natural results 
which must outflow from incomplete and 
imperfect comminglings of elements in the 
realm of thoughts, ideas and things ; and not 
from the prime elements themselves. These 
are all-wise, beneficent and harmonious — 
God's perfect idea. The natural condition 
of man is an orderly, not a disorderly condi- 
tion — a healthy, not a diseased one; and it 
is just as easy to organize for health as for 
sickness; for success, as for failure; for vir- 
tue, as for vice. 

Through man's associations, combinations 
and organizations, the dual forces of his 
being find expression. His dependencies 
and compensations are limited and qualified 
by his associations. Any unsatisfied need 
through dependence not fully and ade- 
quately responded to, through compensa- 
tion, is prima facie evidence that the sufferer 
is ignorant of the law of association, or, else, 
that the law of association is incomplete in 
itself. The prime elements in the vast as- 
sociation of universal nature, on the one 
side, and man-made institutions on the other, 
constitute the sum total of man's dependen- 
cies and compensations. 

These dual principles which are discover- 



22 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

able in all domains of conscious thought are, 
in their distinctive contrasts, complementary, 
as parts to a whole. They make up the two 
halves which enter into man's being and the 
make-up of humanity; and, when they flow 
together harmoniously, as relative opposites 
and mutual dependents in man's institutions, 
as well as in the individual life, the acme of 
civilization will have been reached ; and pov- 
erty, pain, injitstice, war and disease will have 
been outgrown. These fearful calamities, 
now resting like ar pall upon humanity, are 
only danger signals, held out to warn them 
against violated and abused relations — tender 
appeals to the "prodigal to arise and go to 
his father," rather than having any basis in 
truth. 

The scale or standard of compatibility be- 
tween relative opposites and mtitual dependents, 
both in their simple and complex forms, may 
be rendered as simple and self-evident as the 
degrees of latitude which mark the various 
zones upon the planet, or as those of the 
thermometer, which indicate the relative de- 
grees of heat. It may be applied, alike, to 
individuals, communities and nations, as well 
as to the universe of things ; it is the stand- 
ard for all elements combining for organiza- 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 23 

tion ; it is a universal criterion and system of 
equations — the measure of all value and 
force. 

The arm of all power and momentum 
being in association, combination and or- 
ganization, the work before us is simple and 
self-evident, to wit: The application of the 
law of relative opposites in sexology, parent- 
age, population and ownership, making it im- 
possible for any one to be sick, deformed, 
insane or vicious, and forming a prevention 
to divorce, adultery, and the begetting of im- 
becile children; the application of this law 
to an Integral System of Education, in which 
proper facilities shall be afforded for the cul- 
ture of the entire being; healthy action of 
all bodily organs ; the development of vigor- 
ous intellectual powers; the evolution of in- 
tuitive and spiritual forces. 
• To apply the law r of relative opposites in 
a comprehensive and all-sided system of 
scientific co-operation, in which Capital and 
Labor shall be divinely married, would ad- 
vance the highest civilization, the natural out- 
come of which would flood the world with 
wealth, making it impossible for any to be 
poor or uncultured. 



CHAPTER III. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics 

in their application to 

Sexology, Parentage and Population. 

^XOLOGY, Parentage and Population 
do not result from one arbitrary power 
alone ; they are the commingling of the com- 
plementals of life, love, truth, substance and 
intelligence. This truth is universal in its 
scope and application. Marriage covers the 
whole domain of life; it is evident in the 
mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms. In 
man, it is the call and answer of his better 
self found in woman, bone of his bone, flesh 
of his flesh — the beauty of his life, and the# 
completeness of his being. In woman, it is 
the responsiveness to that call — the spiritual 
to the material; the intuitional to the intel- 
lectual; the bearing, passive side, to the ac- 
tive, aggressive side; the joyous and loving 
assumption of the sacred and tremendous 
functions of maternity, with a sweet welcome 
and patient endurance of the vast responsi- 

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MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 25 

bilities involved in reproduction and the per- 
petuation of the race. 

To understand sexology in its entirety, 
constitutes the perfect law of life and the 
perfection of human character, and fulfilling 
its conditions is the only intelligent obedience to 
God, the only possible worship of Him in the 
beauty of holiness. 

The science of marriage is the perfect 
blending of the love-spirit in use and beauty 
as relative opposites, when they are com- 
patible, for a higher outcome. It is Type- 
culture, or the prefiguring of a higher type 
of manhood in the ascending scale of being, 
wherein the qualities of both parents are 
united in a single expression — a new birth, 
a sublimer creation. 

Nothing exists outside the domain of 
fecundatory movements in relative oppo- 
sites; and they are intensified and widened, 
exalted or lowered, in the exact degree oj 
the parallelism in adaptation to the constitu- 
tion and make-up of the elements com- 
mingling. Correspondence and variation 
are complements, both simple and complex ; 
as in the variation and continuity of silence 
and sound, high and low pitch in the ele- 
ments of music. 



26 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

Harmony or discord is the result of the 
association in the composition, and not in the 
elements themselves ; so, too, all forms oj 
evil, sin, sickness and death are not in prime 
elements. God never made them. They 
originate in and through combination — are 
the offspring of marriage under the regime 
of immature thought, motive, perception and 
blind ignorance; they are, then, circumstan- 
tial, not primal. 

Much has been said in regard to heredity 
and the transmission of qualities. The sub- 
ject is daily widening and intensifying in 
interest; but, as yet, no basic ideas, no 
fundamental principles, have been discov- 
ered, or, if discovered, have not in any ex- 
tensive manner been applied. 

The transmission of qualities from one 
generation to another is not absolute, since 
nature never repeats herself — that is, she is 
infinite in her variety, there being no two 
expressions precisely alike. It is relatively 
true, all things being equal, that * ' like begets 
like." The leading qualities of both parents 
are generally represented in their offspring. 

It is a common practice with the agricul- 
turist to select situation, climate, soil, etc., 
with wise reference to the nature and constit- 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 27 

ucnts of the seed sown, the tree planted; and, 
in the process of growth, should one blos- 
som be more perfect than the rest, he fructi- 
fies the next best of its kind, or engrafts a 
new stem upon the tree whose roots are 
more thrifty and enduring than that which is 
not indigenous; thereby he secures the very 
best result as to quantity and quality ; noth- 
ing short will satisfy his progressive mind. 
So, too, the stock-raiser asserts the divinity 
of his idea in selection through sexual blend- 
ings; his sire and dam are chosen in refer- 
enbe to his object in the ultimate use of the 
offspring. If a draft horse be purposed, 
weight, size, bone, muscle, in just proportion 
to the requirement, are appealed to. He 
has recourse to very different selections in 
the production of a racer — speed is now the 
dominal element sought for, with correspond- 
ing proportions adapted to the use or service 
to be performed, functional activities being 
the only formative force. 

Man is an active agent in the discovery 
and application to use of all laws and forces. 
He discovers these in their adaptation to the 
conditions in the various zones of the earth ; 
their indigenous aspects are indexes to his 
fertile mind, having in his thought their cor- 



28 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

respondentials. The electric and magnetic 
fields of force are beginning to be recog- 
nized — the various tones and producing 
properties oif sunlight are all more or less 
regarded to-day, and the discovery is not far 
distant when mental and spiritual dynamics 
will have their place, and be regarded the 
divine art in reproduction. It would indeed 
be very singular to contemplate an artist in 
whose mind there was not prefigured the 
image and idea he was about to transpose to 
the canvas. He would be a strange sculptor 
who did not behold in the rough block of 
marble his divine idea ere he applied the 
chisel. The architect has the entire plan of 
the edifice ere the foundation stone is laid; 
the inventor, his invention ; the designer, his 
design. 

What shall be said, then, in reference to 
human typeculture? Is there no royal grace 
prefigured upon the baby brow? No hy- 
perion curls, no Jove-like front, no classic 
curves? Do not the stars laugh with joy 
when the mother endows her child /with 
grace and beauty in her appeals to this 
science of all sciences — human typeculture? 
Does the father forget in the fiery throes 
of holy inspiration, and in the acme of his 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 29 

aspiration, does he fail to plumb the line to 
fine proportions, classically to cut the precise 
adjustment of corresponding parts ? Beneath 
the emotional, underlying the senses — aye, 
even the consciousness, there exists an under- 
current of mental and spiritual forces not yet 
fathomed, not, as yet, understood. 

The body, the shell, the habiliments only, 
are combined through marriage; under the 
auspices of the spirit 's suggestion is the body 
compounded, the ger7n selected, through which 
the spirit fingers shall attune its human melo- 
dies through human experiences. It is the 
combination of elements, the setting for the 
precious jewel — the tabernacle for the 
Shekinah — in which the ever-burning and 
illuminating ray of spirit may act, be it for a 
century, be it only for an hour. Parentage 
furnishes the body only, the fundamental 
premises, considered from a purely physical 
standpoint. The incoming spirit which 
quickens, the emanation from soul's eter- 
nal sphere, hath no beginning — is self- 
existent, self-affirming. 

In soul-life, the male and female forces 
were embodied in one organism, correspond- 
ing to the deep sleep "God caused to fall 
upon Adam" ere the "rib" was taken from 



30 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

his side — the passive side of being, the in- 
finite, fathomless side, which is the relative 
opposite and mutual dependent of the finite, 
the active side. 

The spirit } s sojourn on the planet is limited 
by the fulfillment of its intention in the les- 
sons gathered from outer consciousness 
through the experiences incumbent upon its 
embodied career. Some, only, come for a 
moment^ just to touch again the earth's outer 
sphere, while others work a century or more. 
Moses made his exit at the age of one hun- 
dred and twenty years. "His eye was not 
dimmed, nor his force diminished." Environ- 
ments, and their compatibility to perfect or 
imperfect expressions form a factor in the 
longevity of individual existence. If the cir- 
cumstances be too intense for the degree of 
energy embodied, the spirit assumes anothei 
form, better adapted to fulfill its designs. It 
never returns from the field of battle without 
its laurels of victory, mind being positive to 
matter, spirit to sense, soul to circumstance. 

The infinite variety of experiences which 
earth affords has to be entered upon by each 
and all; hence the pauper and peasant of 
one series of experience may be the autocrat 
in another, and vice versa, reciprocally. The 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 31 

compensating forces in being are absolutely 
and relatively just. No abuse of any of the 
functions of life goes by uncorrected by the 
abuser himself. When this law is understood, 
no person can afford to act viciously or un- 
wisely ; it will then be discovered that stealing 
is robbing one's self; and the hero of a thou- 
sand battles will learn that mitrder does not 
kill. 

"A sower went out to sow his seed; and 
as he sowed, some fell by the wayside ; and 
it was trodden down, and the fowls of the 
air devoured it And some fell upon a rock ; 
and soon as it sprang up, it withered away, 
because it lacked moisture. And some fell 
among thorns, and the thorns sprang up 
with it, and choked it. And others fell on 
good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit 
an hundredfold." In typeculture, who and 
what the wayside? Who and what the de- 
vouring fowls of the air, but the vile, secret 
sin, the carrion raven of abortion?. Who 
and what the thorns, but the mis-mated 
— those out of parallelisms in wedlock? 
Which the rocky ground, but the extremes, 
the incompatible conditions? To raise the 
standard of population in morals, in intelli- 
gence and in environments, is to apply the law 



32 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS* 

of perfect physical and spiritual adaptation in 
Sexology, and the result will be the birth of 
a royal brotherhood — a race of gods. "He 
who hath ears to hear, let him hear." 



CHAPTER IV. 

Mental and Spieitual Dynamics 

in reference to a 
Universal System of Education, 

IN WHICH 

Mind and Body, 

Intellect, Intuition and Emotion, 

Abstract Ideas and their Practical Illustrations 

are 

Eel ati ve Opposites and Mutual Dependents. 

3TDUCATI0N and Mental and Spiritual 
' Dynamics are relative opposites and mu- 
tual dependents in themselves, since Education 
is a mental and spiritual process — one mind 
acting on other minds — a spiritual force act- 
ing 07t other spiritual forces. 

The distinction between mind and spirit is 
similar to that existing between mind and 
body; the body being the servant of the 
mind, in its functional operations is reached 
by the action of the faculties of the mind 
through the brain and nervous system. The 
mind, in turn, becomes the active agent in 
receiving and transmitting the motives, in- 
tention and designs of the rational-spiritual 

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34 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

from headquarters — the realm of Infinite 
Soul. 

In the fitness of things, a universal system 
of integral education calls for a universal lan- 
guage to express it. The different languages 
of the earth did not arise, and do not exist, 
on account of any difference in form or sound 
as prime factors in speech. A point, a line, 
an angle, or any other form, is the same the 
world over. A tree is a tree, alike in Con- 
stantinople or Moscow. So the lungs and 
vocal organs are formed on the same uni- 
versal principle. Even in the science of 
music, the scale is uniform among all nations 
and races. 

Why, then, should the human voice give 
forth an uncertain sound? Why spend time 
and force to acquire an arbitrary and am- 
biguous dialect in order to make known 
to one another the significance of ideas, 
thoughts or objects, which in themselves are 
the common property, known and understood 
alike by all mankind? A universal language 
would, at least, relieve the mind from this 
onerous task, as well as to free language 
itself from its variety of contradictions and 
arbitrary dictum. 

There was a period in the earth's history 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 35 

when there was but one form of speech, but 
one language. But, through the abuse of 
this tremendous power proceeding from 
unity, (for union is strength,) language was 
broken into fragments by the Lord, ( [Gen. 1 1,] 
the man of the planet,) who came down and 
scattered them abroad from thence upon the 
face of all the earth (the grandest coloniza- 
tion scheme ever inaugurated.) If this con- 
fusion and dispersion was a penalty for the 
trespass on the good order previously exist- 
ing, if it were the consequence of an error, an 
abuse, the sooner it is repented of, the sooner 
will the lost arts of that primal age be re- 
stored. 

Education is continuous and life-long. It 
consists in the knowledge of objects, their 
relations and functional operations on the 
one side, the active, spiritual principles, ideas 
and intelligent purposes they were intended 
to illustrate, on the other, as relative opposites 
and mutual dependents. Self-knowledge on 
the one side, man and the universe of things, 
on the other, as relative opposites and mutual 
dependents, — the ideal and intellectual on the 
one side, the experimental and practical on 
the other. The wise men of ancient Greece 
considered an education the best possible 



36 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

legacy they could transmit to posterity, and 
had emblazoned in golden capitals upon their 
magnificent temple at Delphos these im- 
mortal words, "Know Thyself." This is the 
golden key which unlocks the inexhaustible 
treasures of Being in its physical, mental and 
spiritual aspects. It is the revelator of God 
in man, the neighbor, and the universe of 
things, together with all the rights and re- 
sponsibility involved therein. 

In an integral system of education, the 
contrasted elements, body and mind, must 
exist, and be sustained in equatorial lines of 
compatibility as relative opposites and mutual 
dependents. The same law maintains in the 
associations of the intellect with the intuition 
and emotions. The intellect corresponds to 
the engine, the emotion to the steam; in 
parallelism they are the locomotive of mental 
dynamics. The intellect alone, like the en- 
gine without the steam, is lifeless, and the 
intuition and emotion, without the modifying 
force of the intellect, is void of expression. 

Perfect as the present school system of 
this country may be considered, it certainly 
lacks those essential elements and facilities 
for the ultimation and practical illustrations 
of abstract ideas. It lacks the expressive 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 37 

side, which can only be outwrought through 
the utilities of industrial science in association 
with the elements necessary therefor. Educa- 
tion is not a system of forced measures, but a 
drawing out of that which is written, the un- 
folding of the sacred scroll upon which the 
finger of God has traced His own absolute 
attributes. 



* 



CHAPTER V. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics 

in reference to 

A Universal System op Scientific Cooperation, 

in WHICH 

Capital and Labor, 

Production and Consumption, 

are 

Eelative Opposites and Mutual Dependents. 

SLAVING unbounded confidence in the 
progressive nature and infinite possi- 
bilities of man, mind, also, in the wise or- 
dination of all things in universal nature, 
we are fully assured, that, from the present 
conflicting elements the harmonies of a 
world-wide confederation must emerge; that, 
through the divine marriage of opposing 
forces, a new civilization must be born, which 
will embody in its constitution all natural law, 
which will express all natural rights and their 
corresponding responsibilities, growing out of 
all human relations ; which will guarantee to 
all the full opportunity of satisfying their 
natural wants; thus harmonizing the indi- 
vidual and collective interests of humanity, 

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MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 39 

without reference to race, nationality or sex, 
uniting all into one universal fraternal tie. 

To organize a universal system of scien- 
tific co-operation challenges the best efforts of 
the foremost minds upon the planet. In a 
comprehensive sense, organization appertains 
to the discovery of those functional activities 
which constitute fixe, formative force — the be- 
getting principle in universal nature. It is 
absolute and despotic — the law of necessity, 
the rule of science. In a popular sense, it 
alludes to any particular formula, rule, sys- 
tem of parliamentary usage, under which a 
variety of individualities flow together in a 
unitary or combined endeavor to ultimate the 
original designs of the organizers. 

Father and Mother, the Creator in the 
stupendous and perfect mutuality of the uni- 
verse, has written out the law of organization 
which covers the entire domain of man's re- 
lations. The lines of demarkation through 
all these relations are simple, self-evident, 
universal in their scope and application ; at 
the same time, in their silent potency, all- 
wise and beneficent. The student may turn 
his investigating eye to any one of earth's 
kingdoms, and he will discover this principle 
unfolded in infinite variety; or, should he in 



40 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

the piercing glances of astronomical research 
view the position of the mighty worlds mov- 
ing in the vast, illimitable fields of ether, he 
will find there a perfect system of classifica- 
tion in group-life, cluster after cluster com- 
bining with each other and revolving round a 
common center. The beautiful law of cor- 
respondence runs through all with order and 
harmony; and, taking each part separately, 
or as a vast whole (as far as can be com- 
prehended), it is alike marked with a sacred 
wisdom and beauty which time and space can- 
not encompass. The same principle that im- 
pelled the wonderful energies of the Divine 
Mind in the development of worlds through- 
out space — some a million times larger than 
the earth, and flying at a rapidity of over fifty 
thousand miles an hour, carrying with them 
in their orbits vast retinues of smaller worlds, 
all moving in harmony with certainty and pre- 
cision, is alike applicable to the regulation 
and government of all human affairs in every 
relation of life. 

No system of co-operation, or form of gov- 
ernment can be permanent which does not ad- 
mit of universal application ; is not scientific 
and natural in its origin; discovered, and not 
man-made. It must proceed from the func- 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 41 

tional necessity involved in the inherent na- 
ture of things, and which is decided by 
scientific verities, and not by the voice oi 
the multitude. 

The grand and all-pervading law of com- 
pensation, with its relative opposite, depend- 
ence, is the fundamental law of the universe, 
and a system of mutual combination fur- 
nishes the only vehicle through which these 
forces can operate in their natural and bene- 
ficent attrition; hence we see this law de- 
monstrated not only in the form and 
approximation of all things in objective 
nature, from the innumerable systems of 
planetary worlds through the separate king- 
doms each may contain, to the generic, 
specific and individual expressions, but also 
in the highest operations of supreme love and 
wisdom, through every gradation of thought 
and feeling the human mind is susceptible to, 
or capable of, even to the faintest impulse of 
instinct in organic life. 

As there cannot take place a single act but 
what this law covers, and, as in the affairs of 
life, there has never as yet been any order or 
system of combination instituted sufficiently 
broad to admit of the full exemplification of 
this law in its richness, beauty and beneficence 



42 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

in maris relations, these facts furnish ample 
incentives to right effort in this direction, for 
the law still acts, through unfavorable as 
well as favorable conditions, giving life and 
happiness, if co-operated with, or poverty, pain, 
disease and death, if infringed. 

That there is no defect in the universal 
system of association, in point of form, 
magnitude, position of each individual ob- 
ject, is evident from the harmonious result 
observed throughout nature. The form 
given to the planetary worlds, together with 
their peculiar motions, is such as to secure, 
not only, the most equal distribution of bene- 
fits flowing from the central source of light 
and heat, as well as from all the sister orbs 
in the group, but at the same time to give off 
in return an equal amount, so that every 
advantage is fully reciprocated. The same 
principle operates in the existence and rela- 
tions of every atom that has motion, life or 
sensation. 

No institution can endure which is not sus- 
ceptible to universal application — discovered, 
not man-made — inherent in man's constitu- 
tion, and innate in the nature of things. It 
must operate after the order of nature from 
center to circumference, and vice versa, recip- 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 43 

rocally — must be perfectly voluntary and 
free. Its cohesiveness is derived from the fact 
that all parts are held together by its life- 
giving elements ; the individual and collective 
benefits it confers are so vital to success and 
happiness, that to separate one'sself there- 
from, would be an act of suicide. 

Nature, and Nature s God, are the only 
capitalists. The only wise God, an eternal 
Father and Mother, are the only creators of 
all prime elements of production. "In the 
beginning God created the heaven and the 
earth/ 9 "The earth," therefore, "is the 
Lord's, and the fullness thereof." The Creator 
has made ample provision for the functional 
operation of consumption in man, which he 
has himself imposed as an arbitrary necessity 
to physical life. When He ordinated the in- 
carnation of man, the earth and all that it 
contained was entrusted to man as man, for 
his benefit and wise use. In the infancy of 
the race, the spontaneous productions of the 
earth and sea were all-sufficient for human 
needs. In the growth and development of 
man, as he became educated in relation to 
the forces that surrounded him, he began to 
make selections, and introduced the order of 
cultivation and care to secure the perfection 



44 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

of the elements on whose assimilation his 
comfort and happiness so largely depended. 
This was the first introduction of productive 
labor, and to-day all direct efforts at produc- 
tion are in the line of cultivation and develop- 
ment of existing forces. 

Labor, both mental and physical, is nature's 
great developing process. It not only forms 
the avenue through which she reveals herself 
to man, and opens up to him her exhaustless 
resources, but, at the same time, unfolds his 
capacity to become all-wise, all-good. This 
capacity is the mark of distinction between him 
and the brute; bearing the traces of infinite 
principles in his constitution, they express 
themselves, first, in desire, incentive or want ; 
that want forms the basis of all motive and 
inquiry, calls out action, which action becomes 
the means through which the want is sup- 
plied; want furnishes the motive, then, that 
prompts all industrial effort; therefore, to 
create a full supply for every need of every 
human being, with the least exhaustion of 
elements and wear and tear of agents, con- 
stitutes the function of industrial science, and 
expresses the true relation man sustains to 
God in material things. 

The natural elements and forces, then, to- 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 45 

gether with labor, as relative opposites and 
mutual dependents, constitute the only crea- 
tive agencies for the production of man's sup- 
plies. In the creation of the necessaries of 
life, man, by his intelligence, understanding 
the functional relation of the natural ele- 
ments and things to each other, can bring 
them together, or organize, according to the 
law of relative opposites in those relations, 
and thus secure the highest possible results. 
The same principles that govern matter in 
inanimate nature apply to man, for, in his 
physical constitution he is made up of the 
same elements, only that his higher nature 
and intelligence enables him to recognize the 
laws of his being, and to co-operate with them 
understandingly. 

Man physically, being an outcome from 
the natural elements, can neither separate 
himself from them, nor suspend the absolute 
and omnipotent laws governing his relation 
thereto; hence, every individual possesses 
an inherent claim upon these elements, and 
an inalienable right to their beneficent uses ; 
a right to the credentials which he receives 
from the hand of God in his own organization, 
and they are indisputable. But these ele- 
ments and forces, which are the only source 



46 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

from which man's needs can be supplied, are 
not productive, except in the ratio that intel- 
ligent effort is combined therewith, causing- a 
reciprocal play of forces that result in, not 
only, the refining of the elements, them- 
selves, that they may give back higher and 
still higher productions, but constitute the 
legitimate means of man's unfoldment and 
his royal road to Salvation. 

The application of the principles involved 
in relative opposites to Sexology, parentage, 
population, ownership, education and industry 
combined, will revolutionize the world. God, 
the love of the neighbor, will be universal. 
No more disputes respecting maris rights^ 
woman s rights, individual rights and collec- 
tive rights. All these are settled upon the 
simple and self-evident principle of universal 
goodness (Justice), leaving no grounds for 
disputation. It will secure to the individual 
the highest expression of the relative action 
of pure wisdom with unselfish love, harmon- 
izing the -instinctive, passional, emotional, 
with the rational-spiritual ; thus, cleansing 
the heart of all impurities, abolishing all in- 
temperate habits, and lifting up body and 
mind to a vigorous condition of action. 

It will secure to each individual, a mutual 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 47 

interest in all instihctions — religious, gdv em- 
mental and financial; making them public 
property, instead of the private capital of 
emperors, kings, and all that long train of 
political functionaries, who feed at the public 
crib at the expense of the public; and who 
curse humanity by giving examples of abuses 
which outrage common sense and sear the 
public conscience as with a hot iron. It will 
secure a mutual interest in the natural prime 
elements of production, limited by beneficent 
uses; thus abrogating all abuse through 
selfish spoliation, speculative monopolies, 
nefarious trade and money power. 

It will secure a mutual interest in a uni- 
versal system of integral education and in- 
dustry combined, through which, only, the 
natural elements and forces can become the 
beneficent instruments of universal good to 
man. Through which the laws governing 
the spiritual and material universe in their 
beneficent application shall be discovered, 
which will secure the only possible deliver- 
ance from the tyranny of material and mental 
slavery; the despotism of political tricksters 
and arbitrary, unnatural codes of man-made 
laws. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics. 

Bridging Over Old Conditions Into the New. 

Pathological. 

Right thinking does the work, 

Immortal youth it brings, — 

Death and its shadow throws away ; 

And life, eternal life, in things 

Is seen, is felt, tasted and touched — 

Becomes the evidence to sense; 

So sense, in turn, is servant here below, 

Preserver of the life in lower things. 

( ^THE virtue of one culminating period 
^^ seems to be a relative vice to another 
culminating period. These periods are self- 
evident marks of progress in the career and 
procedure of men and things. It is in order 
to have, first, the blade, then the blossom, 
the promise, then the full fruition ; from the 
lower to the higher, from the simple to the 
complex, from the known to the unknown. 
The endless combinations of elements con- 
stitute the shell, or objective, within which is 
the kernel — the spiritual intention and its 
declaration. Earth's rock-written page at- 
tests the same in the Azoic, Paleozoic and 

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MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 49 

Cenezoic periods. Each wrote its history — 
then ascended into higher expressions of 
planet-life. Vegetable life, which began in 
sea-weed, culminated in the palm, the lus- 
cious peach and nut trees. Animal life, com- 
mencing in the stemless protozoans, ended 
in Man. Through the see7ning extermination 
of the lower is the foundation laid for the 
higher, foreshadowing the highest Love that 
would lay down its life for an enemy, thus 
revealing the divine intention, the spiritual 
force hidden in God's idea. 

There is nothing to condemn. The sin, 
sickness and death which are so universally 
deplored, are only points of change in our 
mental vision. All material forms have their 
basis in mind. All the errors of life to-day, 
arise, not from any disorder in the elements 
of being, as such, but in imperfect associa- 
tion — the result of immature thinking, which 
leads to immature expressions, for thinking 
and being are the two relative halves of the 
same thing; since what a man knows or 
thinks he knows, is one with the mind so 
thinking. 

We can draw no line between past, present 
and future — all merging into an everlasting 
now. Duration has no beginning nor end- 

4 



50 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

ing, save in the domain of man's senses — 
there they constitute the comparative process 
of the mind, and present the differential 
points of unfoldment in all the senses can 
comprehend. Man is surrounded by giant 
forces, which are not in themselves compre- 
hended. He lives in a world of effects, until 
spiritual perception introduces him into the 
realm of causation. Man is a microcosm in 
himself; exists, the reflection of all principles 
and their formulas; all forces and their po- 
tencies. He possesses choice, self-assertion, 
self-reliance ; and, these have their fields of 
force, and are complemented by stern neces- 
sity and inexorable laws, which are relative 
opposites and mutual dependents. 

The laws governing this association were 
imposed by Infinite Intelligence, and are 
cyphered out in the living organism of man 
and in universal nature, which should be a 
sufficient guarantee to every soul, that the 
order of life in its ultimate is perfect, com- 
manding: "Be ye also perfect, even as your 
Father in Heaven is perfect." This degree 
of perfection will be attained when man-made 
laws shall be in unison and not at variance 
with the self-operating laws made manifest 
throughout the realm of men and things. 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 51 

As the angle of divergence, so is the tend- 
ency to poverty, pain, injustice, the carnage 
of bloody warfare; the necessity of training 
vast armies and navies to the trade of whole- 
sale slaughter ; the perpetuation of the hang- 
man and gallows, penitentiary, prison, mad 
house, and all those barbarous instruments 
pertaining thereto. 

God's fiat and man's free will are relative 
opposites ; the points of divergence from their 
parallelism constitute the only curse that can 
ever come — the only evil that ever was, and 
the only torment that hath sting ; and these 
are intensified and widened by the extent of 
the association, organization and co-operative 
effort involved in the use or abuse of any 
prime element in the domain of man's rela- 
tions to God in the universe of things. 

Co-operation means joint operation. Com- 
binations are joint operations, combined. Or- 
ganization is a system of ideas upon which 
combinations are formed. 

A combination according to organization is 
an institution, to wit : Time was when a com- 
bination of functionaries who assumed the 
care of men's souls was designated a Religi- 
ous Institution. 

The barbarous practice of dogmatic laws, 



52 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

that comprehended little that was remedial, 
charitable or just, whose final appeal was to 
the dungeon and gibbet, was a Legal Institu- 
tion. 

Seeking shelter behind the ramparts of 
legal enactments, converting the human 
stomach into an apothecary shop, not to 
mention other kindred cruelties in physics, 
constitutes a Medical Institution. 

A combination which endows a mere 
promise to pay with functions of repro- 
duction, and converts credit into an active 
agent of revenue,, unassociated with intel- 
ligence or labor, is a Financial Institution. 

A combination, standing between producer 
and consumer, plundering both at the same 
time, is a Trading Institution. 

The anxious, corosive care, weary toil, the 
enslavement of the forces of the being in the 
abuses of labor, is the only apology for a 
scientific system of co-operative industry 
and education combined. 

Incomplete, imperfect ideas, perfectly or 
imperfectly applied, are the fountain source, 
the producing cause, and the begetting prin- 
ciple of all forms of evil — of crime and the 
criminal, of sin and the sinner, of sickness 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 53 

in its countless varieties and infinite degrees 
of manifestation. 

Imperfect Theological Ideas have reversed 
the entire order of being; produced an in- 
competent god; established an eternal di- 
vorcement between Creator and the created, 
making All-wise God, our Eternal Father, 
the author of a personal devil, a local hell, 
and a system of rewards and punishments 
which alone could appeal to the lowest 
selfish instincts in animal life, not to the 
rational-spiritual in man ; they have instituted 
cruelty, injustice, slavery, both mental and 
physical; have subjugated the weak to the 
strong, the less to the greater, through the 
barbarous weapons of carnal warfare, (the 
barn-yard law) — the strongest hoof and 
longest horns — alike under all forms of 
government, Theocratic, Democratic, Repub- 
lic and Empire. 

This immature theological idea was re- 
flected upon the conscious thought of man- 
kind, and, since as "men think, so they act," 
the untruthful relations involved in the un- 
truthful idea, together with its rights and 
responsibilities, culminated and became cir- 
cumstantial, actual. The fulfillment of these 
unnatural and untruthful relations, called for 



54 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

the introduction of sacrifices — the plentiful 
shedding of blood of beasts, not sparing 
turtle doves and young pigeons, to pacify 
this mental monster, this idea of an angry 
god. Huge temples have been reared and 
consecrated to these practices, wherein the 
fiery god was worshipped with all fear and 
trembling. 

This fearful idea of an angry god, this 
oriental conception of Father and Mother- 
creator, inevitably resulted in all forms of 
disease — mental mania, in all its degrees of 
madness. These diseases, of necessity, blos- 
som out in, and through, the corporeal prin- 
ciple, which is but a manifestation of mind. 
"I, the Mind," or spiritual principle, organize 
the body through Sexology, through parent- 
age, and the formative force of the en- 
vironments conferred by the combination, 
associations and circumstances which this 
imperfect idea propagated. 

Turn back history's page, and behold the 
cruel, inhuman and relentless warfare — Cru- 
sades and Crusaders, which have been in- 
augurated and sustained by the force of this 
idea, for the perpetuation of its life and 
glory; or, to-day, cast a glance across the 
Atlantic Ocean — to Italy, Spain, Portugal, 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 55 

and portions of Ireland — where the people, 
under its inspiration, pray the most and re- 
ceive the least. These countries are cele- 
brated for their magnificent temples of 
worship, and the abounding of the multi- 
hide of both prelates and paupers as relative 
opposites and mutual dependents. 

This imperfect idea is made manifest in 
exchange — the system of onerous usury on 
unproductive property, falsely called the 
philosophy of finance ; in the abuses of trade, 
extending the privileges of the purchasing 
power to the rich, and denying it to the poor, 
from which arises "the smaller the parcel the 
higher the price ;" the introduction of the 
tax-gatherer for the sustenance of this empty 
carcass, without blood or brains, is a practical 
fraud imposed upon intelligence and produc- 
tive industry ; in clothing the lawyer with the 
unnatural practice of law-making and law- 
enforcing, instead of law-discovery, the spirit 
of which is manifest in punishing the body for 
the errors of the mind, consequent upon the 
imposition of the imperfect idea itself. It is 
the begetter of all for which armies, navies 
and bludgeoned police are instituted, the 
cause of poverty and pauperism, and all dis- 
ease and vices flowing therefrom. 



56 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

This idea, like a midnight assassin, has 
dared to enter into the sacred precincts of 
Sexology, confining the marital right and re- 
sponsibility to a public acknowledgement of 
the same before a functionary of the church 
or state, instead of educating and enforcing, 
by obedience, the sacred science it involves ; 
which would result in the begetting of a 
healthy and efficient population, and in the 
entire prevention of adultery, divorce, and 
ten thousand other imbecilities, all the legiti- 
mate offspring of this imperfect idea, "per- 
fectly or imperfectly applied." 

This oriental trinity in unity, this child of 
polygamous origin, to wit: 

First: An ideal, personal, vindictive god, 
the fury of whose justice could be satisfied 
only by the shedding of blood through the 
plentiful sacrifice of animal life. 

Second: An ideal, personal devil and imps, 
specially endowed by this ideal, wrathful god 
with attributes to lure astray the innocent and 
unwary. 

Third: An ideal, local hell, presided over 
by Beelzebub, who administers its torments, 
its living death, everlasting burning yet never 
consumed, with no possible escape, no re- 
mote redemption, (with a furious inspiration 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 57 

too horrible to contemplate or describe,) has 
flooded the rivers of life, opened wide the 
gates of false habit and custom, making veri- 
table the saying: "Man is born unto trouble 
as the sparks fly upward." 

Wonderful ! that such a preposterous idea 
could have been entertained for one moment 
and made the formative force in mental 
dynamics; yet, its psychological influence 
has been such that it has been proclaimed 
from the pulpit by specially qualified doctors 
of divinity, been sanctioned by the public 
press, has constituted largely the literature 
of the ages, was the inspiration of the poet, 
taught in the schools, seminaries, colleges 
and universities. 

It has — this delusive idea — has threaded 
its devious way into the warp and woof of 
the entire social fabric, expressing itself in 
the barbarous manners and customs of the 
centuries. 

This was the seed! What the harvest? 
Fearful ! Full of fear ! Fear of God ! Fear 
of devils; fear of hell-fire; fear of death! 
Fear of the curse upon maternity ; fear of 
poverty through the curse upon the earth; 
fear of the curse upon labor ; hence penal 
servitude — Slavery ! 



58 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

The revenge of this imaginary god was 
infectious — contagious. It became the model 
after whose pattern every judgment was 
formulated, this arbitrary curse forming its 
precedent. Revenge and Fear are relative 
opposites ; and, in their individual or col- 
lective expressions are the sources of all 
diseases in their positive and negative types. 
Revenge, Envy, Jealousy, and their kindred 
qualities, blossom out in the body in the 
form of the positive series, or groups, of so- 
called disease — from fevers, scarlet as hell- 
fire, gradually down to the low intermitting 
fret, which noiselessly devours the vital 
forces; while on the other side, the reacting 
force of fear in doubt, becomes the parent of 
the negative series, whose name is Legion. 

The modern religious revivalist little 
dreams of what he does under the ex- 
citement of this idea ; how he psychologizes 
his audience, and by his allusions and vigor- 
ous appeals to what is involved in this 
oriental scheme, inoculates the unborn child, 
through the listening mother, with the virus 
of Fear which must inevitably produce the 
so-called mn of diseases in children. 

The unnatural action of this idea can be 
explained on no other hypothesis than that 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 59 

"A lie in Heaven is truth in Hell," and vice 
versa. Beneficent use in natural relations 
represents the heavenly condition; the misuse 
or abuse of true relations, or the substitution 
of false or erroneous ones therefor, repre- 
sents the latter conditions. 

Absolutely there can be no possible sick- 
ness or sin ; the good God never made any. 
In the beneficent uses of things, which ex- 
tends through the senses, functions and or- 
gans of the body, all is harmonious, all divine. 
But misuse, through ignorance or otherwise, 
of the good, is terminally converted into evil, 
harmony into discord, truth into error, health 
into sickness, pleasure into pain. This law is 
fortuitous. It drives mankind back out of 
misuse and abuse, torment being the index 
to the false condition. Sin and sickness are 
self-corrective, circumstantial, being the out- 
flow of the abuse of use. 

The investigation of the causes of sin, 
which is the true diagnosis of disease, is not 
pleasurable to the sensuous life. But "My 
Physician, Mind," would deeply probe, would 
thrust the lancet of intelligent investigation 
to the center and core of the polluted ulcer, a 
false civilization, which enslaves the masses 
of mankind and prostitutes the finer forces 



60 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

to degraded uses. These conditions must be 
uncovered. Ere the stream can cease to flow 
the fountain must be dried. Ere its cancer- 
ous, devouring fire can be quenched, its 
producing roots must be extracted, and its 
psychological chain of bondage must be 
broken. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Mental and Spiritual Dynamics. 
Therapeutical — Ethical. 

The cure, the cure, is quick, is sure, 
Sin and sickness cannot endure ; 
But vanish like the morning dew 
When the full sunlight conies in view. 
The light of Truth doth soon dispel 
The fear of Sin— the fear of Hell — 
Sin and disease will flee away 
Before the Truth's illumining ray. 

<JjpHEORY precedes Practice. As is the 
^^ idea, so is the result — the former is 
causative, the latter formative. First the 
plan, then the structure. If the premises 
be true, the conclusions may be also; for, 
the universal rule is (all things being equal) 
"Like begets like." 

Truth is the strong man, "Kwasind," here 
below, even in the domain of the personal 
senses. To truly know the truth of Truth, 
is to be one with Truth. An intellectual ap- 
preciation of truth merely reaches the shell 
— does not touch the kernel. To love the 
truth is to absorb its inmost soul, and to ex- 
press its potency through active and passive 

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62 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

endeavor. Love, Life, Truth, are trinity in 
unity, and unity in trinity. Man is the 
quality, the fountain-source of Life, Truth 
and Love; these are the primal elements of 
his being, and underlie his very constitution, 
from which he cannot alienate himself or be 
alienated by any external circumstance or 
condition. 

Everything relative has a career, a process 
of development or self-assertion ; this career 
and self-affirmation is in connection with some 
other career, some other process of self- 
assertion, whose rights and responsibilities 
are of the same nature and kind. These 
forces are correlative, co-operative, mutual ; 
they are each individual, particular and sepa- 
rate ; yet, they are the outcome of a vast and 
stupendous unity — oneness — wholeness. 

These two elements of being constitute 
the sovereignty of the individuality, and the 
sovereignty of every other individuality ; and 
these individualities being alike, and at the 
same time unlike, form the basement of 
thought upon which the superstructure of 
mind must be reared. A thought embracing 
but one premise is like unto a bird with one 
wing, or as scissors with one blade ; as such 
is, in the order of things, ottt of order. 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 63 

In the career of the universe and man 
there are marked epochs — culminating 
periods — in wh;ch transition and trans- 
figuration take place. These careers are 
not to be confounded or lost sight of, but 
are to be noticed at the same time as the 
unit of life is noticed, for they are the links 
in the universal chain of being, and must 
be so cognized. Between the culminating 
periods of existence there are processes of 
unfoldment, with beginnings, intermediates 
and terminations, which again repeat them- 
selves in other following processes, and on, 
and on, without beginning, end, or change, 
when viewed in the unbroken cycle of the 
soul's existence. 

The correct view, then, is the association 
of the finite, or relative, with the infinite, or 
absolute; to dis-associate these in the mind, 
is to become sick. To unlink the mortal and 
immortal, to separate the love and emotion 
from the wisdom and intelligent principle, is 
mental mania — things only half-born, cakes 
only half-cooked. The mere intellectual de- 
nial of matter does not wipe matter out of 
existence; but such a denial may, for the 
time, blind the eye to its reality. To affirm 
that sin and sickness are the beliefs of the 



64 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

personal senses, does not change the inex- 
orable order manifested in God's idea ; but it 
may draw a vail over the senses, and tem- 
porarily hide the miscreant of false use in 
abuse from outer consciousness. 

To affirm that intellectual prate, either in 
denying or affirming, can permanently heal 
the sick, is an error, and the sooner it is 
abandoned the sooner the deception will dis- 
appear. A positive affirmation or a positive 
denial, is not in the letter, and cannot be em- 
braced in a mental argument ; it is a spiritual 
force, not as yet capable of definition by the 
intellect, for it lies above and beyond its limita- 
tions. 

A positive denial of the existence of a 
thought or thing is the annihilation of the 
thought or thing. To affirm a thought or 
thing, is the creation of the thought or thing, 
provided, always, that the denial or affirma- 
tion is in harmony with God's idea, or the 
order instituted in universal nature; other- 
wise, it only lingers as a psychological 
shadow for a little while in the domain of 
the mind so denying or so affirming. 

The inexorable law of being is such that 
the less must conform to the greater, but not 
to lose itself in that conformation, or to be ab- 



MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 65 

sorbed thereby. Individuality is individuality, 
indestructible, immortal, eternal. The types 
of life are relative, yet each type is individual- 
ized. Typical illustrations are found in the 
tree, the animal, Man. All are living bei?igs, 
but their typical illustrations consist in the 
limitations of their functional use. 

The earth is man's footstool — ordinated 
by Infinite Intelligence — with ample means, 
provisions and facilities to fulfill the divine 
intention in its creation. The earth is man's 
inheritance, man's birthright; indeed, man's 
physical is antetyped by the earth and its 
relations. 

The earth has its atmosphere, its circula- 
tory system within itself, and again repeated 
in its relations to other bodies — the sun and 
sister orbs. The inferior extremities and 
viscera correspond to the earth — the re- 
spiratory organs, to the atmosphere — the 
head, to the celestial sphere. The viscera 
has its caloric center in the stomach and its 
connected glands. These elements, again, 
are connected with and upheld by the oxy- 
gen and other atmospheric elements, re- 
ceived through the lungs. 

The Spirit — the Law-giver — under whose 
action the electrical and magnetic forces are 

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66 MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS. 

compelled to polarize every molecule that 
enters into the entire structure of the human 
body, performs its function through the head, 
the center of the nervous system. The po- 
larity of the human physical structure, also 
that of the earth and its atmosphere, are 
alike subject to mental and spiritual dyna- 
mics. 

"My Physician, Mind," asserts the suprem- 
acy of this principle, not only as a universal 
panacea in the removal of all moral and phys- 
ical ailments, but constitutes a perfect pre- 
vention to all disease, whether in acute or 
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